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\ . 01}l .. Vol. I -;-yr~l T T TD l TIT, T,r'f , . , f . I , t- I '.! 1 . ,1 T .... l..L_J . V ~ l~ , -' ' \' / . COUNCIL TO DISCUSS FAISING OF MO~EY FOR REO HALL Suggestions for an efficient way to raise money for the Bard Rec Hall will be discussed to-n1ght at the meeting of Council in Albee Social. A Ifund raising campaign for the Hall will be opened as soon as plans and mo-dels are decided upon. Richard L1scher, the lndustrlaldesign instructer, 1s now being consul-ted. The council agenda will also include Dr. Fuller's explanation of the procedures involved in operating concessions. Other topics to be discussed are: Mr. MacAlister's plan on the banquet data the Constitu-tional Committee's Report, Elec-tion of delegates to the Russel Sage Conference, and election of the N.9.A. Committee, DRAMA. DEPARTMENT TO PRESENT 10LD EACHSLOR' 1~Y 3,4, 7, &14 Vi 1l11am Congreve 1 splay The_ Old Bachelor will be given in the Bardtheatre May 3, 4, 7, and 14. The first three perfor-mances will be for the members of the community and friends; ~he performance of the 14th will be for the benefit of the vlsit-lr~g alumni. The 91d Bachel2l:, an eight-eenth century comedy is in five acts. The large cast includes Tlrginia Gaines, Joan ~bner, Delores Kempner, Joan JeKyser, Olga Chur'b~, Ellen Kraus, Al l~a.vl enbee~~ Rip Archer, Bill ~Qlke~, - 1~d Flicker, Pete Stone, Joel Fields, Jay Smith, and Dick Burns. Larry W1smer will direct. The costumes will be made by Marty Becker and her crew. Bill Pitkin will design the sets. Rh DTO 3.riRD TO RE~1ji.ffi ;:.1 : .2~7 ION AT 7" ~ 30; iTo, ~. F hCC~Ui=,I PLAN S RET.'E.c .. LEDj sr AI ~,~ (';~\: MAN.rl.GER FOR 1 :14{-Y· ... 5 0 ~PPO INi' ED "WXBC Bard College, Annand~le-on-Hudson, N.Yo ~ Your tilal 1s set at 630 The Time is 7:301t With this announcement WXBC returns to the air this evenj,ngr.: Radio Bard was granted per-mission to resume operationb by Herb Barlow, engineering con~ sul tant fo r the Inte rc'-ollegiate Broadcasting System. Consent was given pending the station's ability to pass the Field Stren·· ght test. To pass this test, WXBC must prove that it does not transmit beyond the area designated in its Federal Communications Commission's licence. John Steketee, Station Mana-ger, has announced that the station will check transmiss-ion lines to the faculty Circle and the ]wellins Uni J~s and ex-pects to extend their lines to the Kap House and Gray Cottage~ The Broadcasting hours of WXBC (630 on your dial) will cant inue to be 7: 00 to 7 ~55 A " ~:,' and 7:30 to 11:30 PeM~, Mon~~J through Thursday~ Included i~ the program plans are p1'8ber.'tJ8.·· tions of the Senior Projects of Corrine 3herman and Bill DeBal~n{ The Board of D1rec~ors of WXBC selected Don Lasser Sta~ t10n Manager for the school year 1949-1950u Lasser, a vet-eran at Radio Bard, has been program Director of the Stati~n since February. Spring Formal "There will be a Spring formal on April 30, contrary to the minutes recorded in Council", Miss Gonzalez, Cha1rman of the Entertainment Comm. announced. 1 _-___ V_o_d_k_a __ p_un __ ch __ w __ il_l __ b_e __ s_e_r_v_e_d_. ____ ~ ~~- BARD WEEK ~~ Jud Lovin Barbaro.. VJl1.ca tlo.nd J oyco Lo.sk'.r J • .J;lliott Llnds ley Contributors \'/hi tney Bo 1 ton Sybil Ca:minor .Jack Collins John Dcir.lal Zelda Gale T.lario Kclbcrt Bill Lowitt .sditors' Noto: Lou Lincoln' Danny lJowno.n Scott Peyton Hina Ransohoff Barbnra Scho.:"lbcrg David SchwQb Joan Williams .An article by n. membor of facul-ty or administration will bo n weekly fen turo in BARD WEEI\:. The followinG article by 11is8 Ruth Gillard is tho first of this serios. Democratization of Higher ~ducation The sine qua non of learning is dynmlic curiosity. Only when a person has started to ask why, 5.s he on the \,Io.y to bcconing a stu"3 dent. 1:1..lhen he has learned how t. ~') ash: w~Y in r.leaningful ways ;-tl:a '"~ is wi hin a fraLle\~ork sub ject -:':) systomatic inquiry, he is' on tiln way to becor:ling a scholar. Li tt:r.n or no learning can take place U;.l ~ less a person wants to learn. Tho first problem that a collegn faces is to select students \vh') have the motivation to learn. It is for precisely this beason thr~·:; Bard does not accept student s S~ r> ply on the basis o:f evidence of ~; i l") nental ab~,-li ty to ICarn, which i ,: , the case with the majority of co~· loges and univorsi ties in the U"S ,~ This is a necossary, but not suf··, ficient" rea.son for admission" to .: college~ The sufficient part of the formula is intorest, desire to . learn, curiOSity about something~ This of course is a difficult at·· tribute to dotormine in some"cases because it nay be stinulated. But 9 it is the intent of the college to admit as students only those who There is no roon in tho world in fact ~ to learn, - and thir of highor education for those who process of selection will go on lack curiosity, f'or those who until tho collor:7G is able to ob·l:,ain have no intorost or only a passive as close to a 'perfect' student interest in Imowlodge~ Tho in- po~ulation as is possible. stitution of hi3hcr education is Tho f'ormula for motivating peo-in ·grav-e ", danger from "a ' meve-ment " " -.:ple t·o·:frec,onG"" s.tu.den-t.e""-ha-s--~·not as of so-called detlocratization. The yet boen discovered. There have do.nger is 1:10roly hir;hli~hted at boon and ure a few groat teachers the monent; it has existed for as who 1)OSSOSS the art of insniring long as the symbol of B.A~ degree studonts through a lecture system has tn.ken procedence over the in- (which is tho systerl large insti t-c ' trinsic valuo of the educated per- tions must usc). But they are fow} son " That is, the danger has exist-and learning in the lone; run is D-od fran the time the B.A. degrec process which demands marc tnan a became important for itself with one-way cOr11":1_unication system. If little regnrd and inquiry in'to "/C attempt to increase college en-tho real educational stature of rollr:lont before we learn how to tho persons posessing it. This turn people into students, if we danger will l-:1punt as the propor- continuo to incroase tho number of tion of colleces and univorsi ties non-students in a co11e i~e popula,·, who del:land sarno ovidO!1CC of sin- tion., we !":In.ke tho situatio!1 of the coroty and curiosity in thoir stu- real stud8nts nore difficult and dents docreases in relation to the imnossiblo. Tho result would be totn.l- population of collogo stu- that VIC would turn out more B.A. ; ~· :::' donts. And this proportion, for a and fewer students because the tiDe at least, is bound to docreaseeffoct of the pressure of tho as the c atos swing wide to admi t young populatioJ"'l in a coll.ege ' -as s tl1..clonts thoso people who qual- u<Jt:'lI:1unit-y coon 'outwoighs tho ef-i:fy for entrance on tho sim:rllc ba- forts of " even 8. good facul t:;y of sis of mental ability to do the pcholars. " '[forI\:0 Only snn.ll colle~cs can 'I.Ul- It is one of the pl--iv11eges ~n~ dcrtako tho job of scrocninr; appli- perhaps the raison d' et!"£ ?f t~1C cants 'for qualifications other small coll ~]gG to first adml t ._ t:h.an those easily Llscortainablo only the person ~vho 1s a potentla.L f::"O!li formal rocords. Until the student, and secondly to exper--motivation the urrronc"~ to learn lment to dotermine the best sys-becomes 3. ~a11t of the ~raluo sys _ tern of ~ai~tainin~ a.nd increasi.l"o tem of the IU:l0rico..n peoplo, any the curlO 31 ty baSle to lea:ni~g_"J plan at mass hig~"lcr oducation The assumption is that CUrlOSl.ty will fall short of its aim. can be increased only as tools are learned which can give some satisfaction in terms of partial answers to questions asked. If (continued on page 4, column 2.) lTOT.8S ON A PALETTE Anerican art is at tho cross-roadsl This is an undeniable fact. WEISS' F~EL LITTLE HAGAZINBS LAST HOPE FOR CREATIVITY" IN LIT3RATURE 'Ilhe fu'nbivn.lonce of many young 1 Tho Ii ttle Ii terary magazines !Jo..intcrs before the puro and po... are the last gasps of croati vi ty lit c worl{s of' Brn.que, is sympto.. in this country r, said i5r. Thco-mo..tic of this. Although ovor'" dore I'!oiss, co-odi tor of The wholmed by tho decorative quality I~uartorly' l1oviow of ~LitoratUre. of his work, :many still feol that ~rs Woiss, as I~o--cditor of the Brn-quo is a lililitod painter, fail- nagazinc, added, tThat docs nOT':; ing to cor:1r:1..,micato either personal nonn that VIC fool that all hop;~:, or universal insin:hts. for croativi ty T.lust be abandono(~.:.; Por tho past thirty yoars tho howevor, wo fcel t11n.t today cr0 ( ~· split botwoon the acadonics and tivc manuscripts arc the most tl~o moderns had hold the spotlight difficult to sot published, thuG" o~ tho art arona. The advanced diminishinc tho incentive towardr <:hcorists and vocal painters had inspirational wri ting 1. br;on concornod with justifying AlthouGh tho Review was becun t~lomodcrn school to an acadomic six :ron.rs ago, while :Jt. '.-Joiss VlE,S 0::") sentimental or bowildered pub- teaching at tho Uni versi ty of lic. Thoro is now a rrew fission.. North Ca.rolina, it has boen print-ou a fission in the vory nuclous intermittently for only four years. of the nodern school itself. New It was originated to offer an op-critics, once defenders of modern portunity for public~tis::n to young art, have now arisen to condorm it writors .. 'Vic believe, r Hr 'INeiss as a docorntivo clique. Tho Braquo continued, 'that the publishj.ng' show meroly sh~ens this neYIT spli t ra.cket is financially diseased,-botweon the dofQndor@ of modern putting -the dollar sign be fore a-decoration and the advocatos of ability'. more illustrative, cOl]municativQ Tbe biggest chango that Hr and art ~ l.Irs Weiss have undo in odi torial Certnin basic issues arc in- policy since starting on thoir vcn---\[g~1Y§,£" . _ i~s_u?~>_ ~hD.t o~~o~d b~yon~ ture ,has boon tho cuttinc; dovm of tho lini'ts or tho -art world·~'P·r-o';;' ·· crit1cal ·-·nnal:}'s~-s- .oartdthe hutlding bably the most innedin.te issue up of creative works" 'The r.tajori ... involved is whether tho artist ty of little nagazire s are·tentuT'0j nust remain an alien in America - in collcges;bccause of thnt, the whether thoro is a potent tradi- academic virus of criticism has tion in this cou:!.ltry sinilar to crept into th.o creative magazinos 1 <1 the European traditions now vVri tine; is a touzh business for . flowGring in Fro.nco~ Most of us yotmg, hopeful authors, the edito3."'G acr-co that l:lechanizo.tion, tho observed. Ii. norson should not on-puritan tradition, mass escapism, tor tho field unless he foels com-nnd tho grovling hypnosis of the polled to do so. public by conventional, cut-dated ~ 'We arc not unduly alnrnod about attitudos has, in the past, stor- t~J.c quality or philosonhy of to-ilizod the artistic .soil. '°..fhcthor" days writers,' Er. o.nd Mrs. ','/Oi8S conG thore are positive counter forcos; eluded, 'Y0'ill1g authors still have a what they arc, and where they are sense of lostnes8, but'they are contcred is still,howevor,-an moving away fron the TQ S.:81iot open issuo ,~ Ii morc Goneral, f'nr- ~r~i -cionalisn which has boen ro~ching problon involves our haunting litorature.! p~0scnt aosthetic standards: Accordinr: to I '~r. and 1'.'lrs \"foiss, vfhother cur discussion of sic;nif- The Quarte~l7T Roview of Li torat~},~ icance of forTH has not romoved tho has nrovcd D. tremedous amount 01' v/hole aroa of co:mnunication and workJ~ 'but has certainly boon worth }lhilosophic nanning frolil aesthotic while. considerations. Scott Peyton These issues to bo discussed arc not nor oly- dialectical, nb-stract affairs, they nfrect tho iUl1..edia to futuro of na.ny Bnrd studon ts .. V'lhothcr ViO will be ablo to onter a frD..g~·.1on ted and bowil-' dorod art world wi th clear heads J strong willS, 8.nd n meD-sure of certainty dopends on how wo ans-wor th0se questions. Danny Novnnan -3------.- .~-Dr. ?;d','T2Y'd C. Fllll..~ r spol\-e on lI~,lodern Tren os In Tfi~hAr ~ucatio!111 J at t he ~7onen 1 s Club in ~'iIerredian, Connecticlt, last T'reek. DANCELESS DANCE BAND ST ILL AT LARGE BARD AT D.d.WN Dining Commons at breakfast re-Easter vacation was over. A sembles, in many ways, a busy morgue; rabbit-chop sandwich in hand, I except that most of the clientele of stalked up the dusty cowpath to the former place are not trundled in , Bard. From my pocket came the This doesn't mean to imply that merry jingle of beer--can tops. everyone that walks in or out of What had become of the Bard Band,Commons is necessarily alive; but I wondered? Over Eastertide, actually the te st of ambulatory po· .. §veryone was laying eggs, and wers seems to be the only real basis competition had been stiff. I of a safe differentiation betwee0 recalled the scene which had student and stiff. Another lr.~ (:1"\~: -taken place just one week be- ting comparative test often mal", j J fore. There has been cries of the drug or chemical shock trea\l,:'yt uSo long, Yentlh'8~ Jon1t take Here, a violent physical reactiu:,'i L..;' any wooden alcohol~n I remem- prodaced by injecting adrenalin: bered the serene expression on Coffee, or Sunshine Grapefruit the face of the beloved trumpet- Juice into the system. Following er Nadroj, as he drove off into the initial shock and reaction, the unknown, eyeballs akimbo. the body sup~osedly resumes its I recalled them all now: Suirad, normal functionings unless damag~d Yppiks, Ylime, and Bob.Ne all by the first jolt. I~iorticians SE:l.-loved B;O~ thouD"h his name was dam are able to revive subjects , 0 d' a bit strange. But would that through this means; but Bar s happy group ever meet again? Kitchen staff have been quite succ-Had our sobriety over the Inter- esful with the Coffee and the national Students' Weekend ruin- Citrus Soluti:Jn • .d. practiced ob-ed us as musicians? Things look- server can usually discern which ed bad for the three B's of the solution has been used on the sub-campus (Brownls Beery Boys). ject. Those tjat take Coffee us-But don't fret, children ••••. ually have red faces and a saggy things a re fine now. Our mus ic- look, while the Citrus users st ill ianship has 8Tler5ed unimpaired, have hair and blood-shot eyes. and my little pink nose has Sometimes its hard to tell at Bard. ~~ tWlkcWng.~u' ve sle~ off the Eac,ter eggs a~ne- . . , Easter eggnogs. Fe've got the band •••• now where's the dance? lNh 1 t ne y B 01 t \) n -tfUo Be' ' WhO~''Utt'M:e iYnt.o -· g fiiiamO .. S-from the Barracks and stone Row are the most exciting to watch. After caroming down the stairs, they usually take the outside lane through the kitchen dorrs, and " ·- ·--'-'~·-·-- '-- ·'-"'-·---------~--'- -· ' ---'1 scare hell out of erne rgine; traff ic " I ! I I I I '.., LETTER TO T L~~ EDITOH If they p~ll out of this dangerous "-- left hanj turn wi th no more than a. To the Editor: \ pocket-full of scrambled eggs, the This is a plea for better I rest is easy. An ingenious arrang-journalism. It is also a nlncere/ment of tables anj s. :, elves set commendation for Barj ~eek and along the inside lane thereafter its valiant attempt to found a serves as a handt gUide-rail for newspaper despite skepticism the sem1-conscio~s. Somebrash from variou3 groups. people, usually the ~ardens crowd, It is possible to have two consider this sot-up rather unspo!t-papers on campus. The expros- ing; hence these often may be seen sion of opinion throuGh two or " sta:1ding without visible sup~ort, more publications should not bel prou~ly and glassy-eyed in mld-frowned upon, but encouraged. : lane, while their more realistic Bard 'jieek can be a construc- ' neighbors edge cautiously past "tive instrument on campus if it ' them and on to better things. is able to carry out the iieas outlined in its prospectus. Your paper shoulJ not be in com~ petition with the Bardian, but supplement it with informative and cultural articles. I' '~ihen two papers of Good-w ill can exist in a friendly spirit~ I yet oppose each other in cases ,;vtle re the i r op inions d iffe r, i they will serve Bard in a greatr' er capacity than either one could possibly do alone. . ' David H. Egerwald (conlt~ from page 2.) Bard can do t~is it will contri-bute much to the instituiton of higher learning of the countrJ~ The difficulties of attaining the ideal toward which Bard is striving are inherent in the American culture. Space does not allow a discussion of them at this ti:ne, but they will be presented in following articles. Ruth Gillard 23 April 1949 

Bard Week, Vol. 1, No. 2 (April 25, 1949)

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Bard Week, Vol. 1, No. 2 (April 25, 1949)

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